Secret Service Busts Man Scaling White House Fence

U.S. Secret Service agents on Monday tackled a man who attempted to climb a fence into the grounds of the White House.

The individual, who was described as wearing sunglasses and a blazer, scaled a fence at the Treasury Department which sits adjacent to the White House. He was taken into custody after agents chased him down, disrupting his plan.

The man was handcuffed and sent to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District, where he was charged with unlawful entry, authorities stated.

“On Monday, September 29 at approximately 4:55 p.m., an individual scaled the fence on the southeast side of the U.S. Treasury Building and was arrested by U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers for unlawful entry,” the agency said in a statement to RealClearPolitics’ Susan Crabtree.

“He was subsequently transported to Metropolitan Police Department’s 2nd District for processing. There was no impact to our protective operations,” the statement continued.

The fence-scaling stunt coincided with a sensitive visit by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Trump administration’s release of a 20-point plan to bring peace back to Gaza. Earlier on Monday, a Secret Service vehicle mysteriously caught fire, forcing first responders to evacuate the area as the blaze was contained.

The source of the fire remains unclear, Conservative Brief reported.

Just The News White House Correspondent Amanda Head was an eyewitness to the surreal scene, which authorities are still investigating.

Photographs show firetrucks arriving to douse the flames, which were contained inside the vehicle as a plume of smoke emitted from the front passenger door. The fire appeared to be extinguished shortly before 11 a.m. on Monday.

Both security lapses are reminders of the challenges that have befallen the beleaguered Secret Service since last year. Director Sean Curran, who served as Trump’s chief of security during his 2024 campaign, took over the agency this year with the president’s full support.

Curran is contending with an agency that has faced accusations of “woke” hiring and derelict agents who have left their posts without warning or posted photos to social media that compromised President Trump’s safety.

Breach of the White House gate is the first since March, when police arrested Andrew Dawson, a 27-year-old man from North Manchester, Indiana who was the target of a BOLO and described as armed and suicidal. He was later arrested and charged with carrying a firearm without a license.

During President Trump’s first term, multiple men were arrested for breaching White House grounds. One was arrested for hopping over a bicycle rack on the property while another was arrested for entering a restricted area. When asked why he was there in June 2017, Travis Reinking told agents he wanted to “set up a meeting with the president.”